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Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

Okay, fair enough.

It's the late afternoon bulletin.

I suppose even the early evening afternoon bulletin at this point.

It's the travel schedule, folks.

I'm Mike Baker.

Your eyes and ears on the world stage.

Let's get briefed. First, in some,

well, let's call it embarrassing news for the mullahs in Iran, a bombshell report reveals that

Israel managed to take out a secret Iranian nuclear research facility during their retaliatory

strike against the Islamic regime in late October.

Then, we're learning that in the month leading up to the U.S. presidential election,

Iranian officials gave written assurances to the Biden administration that they would not

target Donald Trump for assassination. Well, isn't that nice of them? How magnanimous? Which, of course,

is our PDB word of the day. But first, our afternoon spotlight. It turns out Israel's retaliatory

strike against Iran last month did far more than knock out the air defense networks there in Iran

and damage their missile program. According to an exclusive

report from Axios, Israel destroyed an active top-secret nuclear weapons research facility

located just 20 miles south of Tehran. The site, which was previously thought to be an active,

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